Re: Next release from master

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02/10/2016 06:04 AM, Alexis wrote:

> (c) at a basic level, my point was not "i have a problem with Eli being
> the main person writing documentation" so much as "i have a problem with
> the fact that it's /necessary/ for Eli, /or anyone else/, to be having
> to write documentation for code they haven't written, because the
> developers of the code in question have treated documentation as
> Somebody Else's Problem".

Of course it's a problem. And I would be happy to have to write my own 
documentation, provided nobody is expecting to see the next Emacs 
release anytime soon.

Unfortunately, since there are so few core developers, or people who 
take responsibility for various core packages, some of the time I could 
have used to work on the said documentation, I had to spend on e.g. 
fixing stuff in etags.el, or pieces of VC left broken by ESR's latest 
changes.

> If you think that it's not important to
> provide documentation for the code you write, then okay, but that's not
> a position i share.

Not as important as working code, or fewer bugs in Emacs in general.